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Old 15th January 2013
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Originally Posted by joekiser View Post
NTFS for compatibility. You will have no problem accessing / writing to it from FreeBSD or Linux
Stuff happens and then you end up with data loss and corruption.

If your files are mostly created under Windows (and stored on NTFS), then use FreeBSD's read-only NTFS driver.
If FreeBSD is your main OS (and you store your files on UFS2), then use a UFS driver on Windows to read the data.
Etc.

Using the network to share the disk is still the safest way.

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Originally Posted by joekiser View Post
and any performance benefits of faster filesystems are offset by the USB bottleneck.
No one is talking about SATA-like speed of course. There is USB-limit speed and then there is below USB-limit. I've used NTFS, FAT32 and UFS2 on the same external disk and NTFS was noticeably the slowest.
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